Tartan Video is dead.

Karl Hungus

Read it here.

This is one big pile of fail right here.

senordingdong

That's a shame.

Eirebear

That is a real shame.

Without Tartan i would never have picked up an interest in Asian films, after seeing Ring, A Tale of Two Sisters, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Save the Green Planet during their Tartan Asia Festival at Cineworld a few years back.
And from that opened my mind to foreign film more often than i would have without these experiences.

Sanjuro

And yet the unrelenting release of ****ty Hollywood films continues. Shame.

johnny_ultimate

Huge shame. One company that trumpeted offbeat titles and world cinema down the drain. Such a huge variety of DVDs, and usually a decent mark of quality.

Big loss for film fans. Was probably my favourite DVD distributor: without them, would never have seen a helluva lot of amazing films, from their spectacular Bergman collection to their varied and admirable Asian Extreme label.

Deadbot22

that's an awful shame alright.

Running Bing

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Huge shame. One company that trumpeted offbeat titles and world cinema down the drain. Such a huge variety of DVDs, and usually a decent mark of quality.

Big loss for film fans. Was probably my favourite DVD distributor: without them, would never have seen a helluva lot of amazing films, from their spectacular Bergman collection to their varied and admirable Asian Extreme label.

Amen.


For a long time Tartan has symbolised quality, variety and affordability for me. Definately my favoutite label.


This is really dreadful news. Really hits home about movie watchers in general when people like friedberg and seltzer can be consistently successfull yet a label like Tartan folds.:mad:

Fysh

Boo!

While I don't often pay attention to who distributes films, Tartan were a company whose releases I'd happily take a chance on because they had so rarely disappointed. Gutted to hear they're no more.

MooseJam

Good enough for them, absolutely disgraceful workers turning up for work and finding the doors locked, what kind of a spa ran that business, too much trouble to tell the staff the place was closing ?

TerrorFirmer

MooseJam wrote: »

Good enough for them, absolutely disgraceful workers turning up for work and finding the doors locked, what kind of a spa ran that business, too much trouble to tell the staff the place was closing ?

Necronomicon

I don't know what to say

I owe a hell of a lot of my movie taste to Tartan.

Jack B. Badd

RIP

Galvasean

Damn, they were pretty handy.
Without them I doubt I'd have discovered Takashi Miike, Oldboy or even Battle Royal.

johnny_ultimate

Galvasean wrote: »

even Battle Royal.

You're not alone. The Tartan region free edition is the only copy of BR available to American viewers, where the film has long since been in some kind of non-release limbo (although not banned as some believe). The simple move of making the DVD region free is the kind of thing that showed the kind of company Tartan were: in it for film fans as well as the money. Which is always admirable.

Dont be at yourself

in fairness, after huge crossover successes like ring and battle royale, they seemed to pick up every middle-of-the-road asian horror...

had they been a bit more discerning in recent years, things may have turned out differently

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i own about four tartan dvds, i think everyone of them has stupid coloured subtitles that can't be read in certain scenes.